Romans 6:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?”
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BSBPD
“Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“let it not be! we who died to the sin--how shall we still live in it?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Romans 6:2 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 39:9No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”
- Psalms 119:104I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.
- Romans 3:1What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
- Romans 5:11Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
- Romans 6:5For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection.
- Romans 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
- Romans 7:6But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
- Galatians 2:19For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
- Galatians 6:14But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
- Colossians 2:20If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:
- Colossians 3:3For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
- 1 Peter 1:14As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
- 1 Peter 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- 1 Peter 4:1Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.
- 1 John 3:9Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
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